Taiwan's Next Media Animation looks into their crystal ball and creates a mashup trailer for season 5 of “Breaking Bad.” Having seen the first five episodes of season 5, I can tell you they may not be spot-on about the precise direction of the weirdness, but they've pretty much nailed it on the degree of weirdness.

The Comics Curmudgeon offers up one of the creepiest yet most logical meta-commentaries -- on ”Momma,” of all things -- that I've ever read. Seriously -- he's packed up and moved into Philip K. Dick territory here.

A tribute to the hint of a suggestion of the rumor of rain that we got this morning: Here's a Disney classic from 1935: “The Band Concert,” directed by Wilfred Jackson with voice work by Clarence Nash (Donald Duck). Five years later, Mickey would have his second brush with classical music in “Fantasia.” Meanwhile, how did that bit with Goofy on the clarinet and Clarabell on the flute get past the Hayes Code people?

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